Dunces Quote by Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

— Jonathan Swift

“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."…

— Jonathan Swift

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

— Jonathan Swift

“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

— James Russell Lowell

There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that man is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

— Samuel Johnson

“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.”

— A Gentlemen

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

— Jonathan Swift

“True genius never says he know what he is doing”

— Albert Einstein

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

— Kedar Joshi

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson